With thanks to Country and Townhouse, here are their top ten long reads of 2020:
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Lynn Barber's favourite ever interviews, a chat with
Anya Taylor-Joy and the lowdown on forest bathing
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That’s right. This annus
pandemicus is drawing to a close. The turkey carcass lies festering
and your waistline’s expanded so put your bedsocks on, light the
fire, fill a cup with thick hot chocolate – and settle back for a
browse, as we bring you our Country & Town House long reads of
the year, in case you missed them first time round.
Happy New Year.
Lucy
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TOP 10 LONG
READS OF 2020
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Lynn Barber
Journalist Lynn Barber is
revered and reviled in equal measure – no celebrity or VIP is spared
her lacerating prose, but what are her favourite interviews? We found
out when we asked her to write about them back in the summer. Find out who made the grade and who
was a big disappointment
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Arizona Muse
Model Arizona Muse has made
it her ambition to educate not only herself but all of us on
making fashion sustainable. She wants a world where we don’t even
have to look at the label anymore to know that what we are buying has
no negative impact on our planet. Read her manifesto for living a
better life
Image credit: Carla Guler
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Anya Taylor-Joy
Who was the girl who got us
all into chess this Christmas? None other than the uber-talented
Anya Taylor-Joy as Beth Harmon in The Queen’s Gambit. But do
you remember she also played the eponymous heroine in Jane Austen’s Emma
earlier this year? Daniella Saunders found out where
her happy place is
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Alexandra Tolstoy
It’s been a big year for
Alexandra Tolstoy, erstwhile partner of a Russian oligarch, who stars
in her very own riches to semi-rags tale of Chanel handbag wardrobes,
private jets and French tutors to being given 12 days to leave the
family home, and restarting her life. We found out how she’s been
surviving
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Misan Harriman
Misan Harriman was the
first black photographer to shoot a cover for Vogue. His images
came to prominence when he went out to capture scenes of the Black
Lives Matter movement this summer. He tells Ed Vaizey and Charlotte
Metcalf why taxis and black men don’t mix and why diversity is so
important
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The Land Gardeners
Who could fail to
appreciate the simple beauty of flowers? But it takes healthy soil to
grow healthy flowers, so step forward The Land Girls, two gardeners
who took Instagram by storm with their floral confections – but what they’re doing underneath is
even more thrilling
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Best Interior
Designers
Thinking of giving your
house a revamp in the new year? Our panel of experts have taken a
good hard look at the UK-based designers who are pushing boundaries,
consistently delivering excellence and inspiring on every level. Welcome to our chosen 50 for 2020/21
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Forest Bathing
While we couldn’t spend
this year hugging people, we could spend it hugging trees. We’ve long
known about the benefits of the trees and forests, but it’s becoming
more mainstream: the further we get from nature, the more we yearn to
dive back into it. Read on to find out more…
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Carolyn Steel
We’re all looking for ways
to live a little better – and, according to Carolyn Steel, our
efforts should begin at the kitchen table. In her 2020 book Sitopia,
Carolyn argues that food should be at the heart of everything we do. Lucy Cleland met the author to find
out more
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Bill Bensley
From a zoo where the
visitors are contained and the animals roam free to a luxury camping
experience in the Cambodian wilderness accessed via a zip line,
American-born and Bangkok-based architect and interiors visionary
Bill Bensley is full of wacky ideas. Emma Love chats to him about
reforming the travel industry here
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